A week from this coming Monday I will be reprising my presentation on how competitive intelligence professionals can best use RSS as a low-cost method to cast a wide research network. I’ve tried to update the material to discuss the potential of Twitter to track sentiment, issues and breaking events in near real-time.
I’ve also updated the material to highlight one of my favorite features of Google Reader: the ease with which users can share news items of interest, and how the RSS feed of a user’s shared items can simplify collaboration and publishing of relevant news items. Anybody who is tracking my shared Google Reader items will quickly see that I am a promiscuous sharer of items related to telecom, competitive intelligence, technology, politics, economics and other topics. Between this and Twitter this blog has really become more of an aggregation point for me (and I suppose my Facebook page functions in a similar way) than a site for which I write frequently (and never as frequently as I would like).
As much as I think Google Reader is a great tool and the best RSS aggregator around, there is one feature that is sorely missing. The SmartList feature in NetNewsWire (a Macintosh RSS reader) is a sophisticated way to filter all of the news items in your RSS aggregator based on the occurrence of key words that the user defines, including with some Boolean functionality.
Feel free to take a look at my slides and let me know what you think. I would actually appreciate feedback in the next few days that might help me deliver an even better presentation to the SLA audience.
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Other SLA presentations already available « SLA PHT Division Blog // 13 June 2009 at 06:21 |
[...] Casting A Wide Research Net & Save Time with RSS (RSS for Competitive Intelligence, by August Jackson at Verizon) [...]
Michelle Polchow // 26 June 2009 at 11:57 |
Hi August, I’m a SLIS student & I thought your SLA presentation was great. Exciting to see a current example of information theory and practical application joined together! You have inspired me to move to more creative thinking! Thx!
August Jackson // 26 June 2009 at 12:50 |
Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed the presentation. I used the Extreme Presentation Method from Andrew Abela (Professor in the Department of Business & Economics at Catholic University of America) to create the presentation. If you can take a class from him I highly recommend it.
Are Roberta Shaffer and Elizabeth LeDoux still teaching in the SLIS program?
ellendnaylor // 26 June 2009 at 18:43 |
Hi August,
Thanks for sharing your slides! I was so sorry to miss your excellent presentation!
Ellen Naylor
Michelle // 10 July 2009 at 17:24 |
No, neither Roberta Shaffer or Elizabeth LeDoux are at SLIS. But, speaking of the school, there is a Call for Papers coming out next week that you should consider. Symposium 2010 will be at the end of January and I know students, faculty and alumni would love to hear what you are working on!
5 questions à : August Jackson | Demain la veille // 31 August 2009 at 03:32 |
[...] I’ve been an active advocate for CI professionals to use RSS to expand their information sources create their own stream of up-to-date information. CI researchers can create their own custom RSS feeds from Twitter searches that they create, Your readers can see a presentation on RSS that I delivered for the Special Libraries Association in June here: http://augustjackson.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/my-rss-presentation-for-the-sla-conference/. [...]